8:26 PM,
Jan. 24, 2014

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Wood, Marathon, Portage, Lincoln and Clark counties would see an additional combined $203.7 million to insure low-income adults during the next seven years under a proposed bill that would allow counties to accept federal Medicaid funding Gov. Scott Walker previously turned down.

The money would fund health insurance for an estimated 7,062 adults across the five counties who currently are ineligible for BadgerCare, the state's Medicaid program, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo.

The Affordable Care Act made federal funding available to states to expand Medicaid ...